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phenylthiourea
(redirected from phenylthiocarbamide)

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phenylthiourea /phen·yl·thio·urea/ (-thi″o-u-re´ah) a compound used in genetics research; the ability to taste it is inherited as a dominant trait. It is intensely bitter to about 70 per cent of the population and nearly tasteless to the rest.
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The chemical in question is phenylthiocarbamide, or PTC.
Neanderthals could taste bitter flavors just like modern humans by Asian News International
They have found that a gene in modern humans that makes some people dislike a bitter chemical called phenylthiocarbamide, or PTC, was also present in Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Nabhan postulates that this desire for chilli (hence the name of the book) is hard-wired, just like the taste for phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) (that only 'super-tasters' find excruciatingly bitter).
Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity by Brand-Miller, Jennie / Nutrition & Dietetics: The Journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia
 
 
 
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